Software Development Engineer

Job description

We are a Hamburg-based team inside Adobe Cloud Platform & Collaboration (ACPC). We own the backend platform for live collaboration, asynchronous eventing, cloud-native file formats, and large-scale file storage. Products like Photoshop, Firefly, Express, and the Document Cloud run on top of our APIs. High traffic, latency-sensitive, on the critical path of nearly every Adobe creative workflow.
 

We build it, we ship it, we run it.
 

• Solve concrete engineering problems around latency, throughput, consistency, data durability, and storage cost

• Own parts of the system end-to-end, from design through production rollout

• Shape the team's technical direction through design reviews, prototypes, and honest debate

• Use modern development practices and AI-assisted tooling to keep the iteration loop tight and the quality bar high

• Participate in incident response and drive the follow-up fixes

• Collaborate with partner teams across Hamburg, the US, and India

• Several years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of owning non-trivial systems in production

• Curiousity: you dig into unfamiliar systems and keep asking why until you hit the root cause

• Teamplayer, comfortable giving and taking direct feedback

• Strong programming skills, ideally Java

• Clear, direct communication in German and English

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)

• Hands-on experience with Spring, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB, and message queues

• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus

• Experimenting with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code)

• Ownership of services that are essential for Adobe's creative products

• A team that takes engineering craft seriously: honest code reviews, data-driven postmortems, rigorous technical discussions

• Two on-site days per week at our Hamburg  office, with flexibility to work from home on the other days

• Room to grow into deeper technical ownership or broader scope over time

If you do not tick every box, apply anyway. We care about judgment, growth, and how you think about problems.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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